I’m wondering if my readers are as astonished as I am by something getting a lot of play in our nation’s political “conversation.” Again and again and again, in newsprint, on the radio, on the TV and on the internet, we hear reference made to the January Sixth Capitol “insurrection.” By any sane definition of the term, January Sixth was
It sometimes happens that writers and poets can capture the zeitgeist, or spirit, of a particular era in just a word or pithy phrase. Novelist Edith Wharton, for example, called the late Victorian era “the Age Of Innocence.” French writer Charles Peguy spoke of the period from 1871-1914 as “la belle epoch.” The poet W. H Auden called the 20th
Most “breaking news” stories don’t really “break” anything. After the first sentence, the attentive viewer/listener/reader can pretty much predict the whole story, sans a few minor details here and there. Every once in a while, however, comes a “breaking news” story that is truly surprising. I encountered such yesterday. The headline read: “Supreme Court To Consider 2020 Election Challenge Lawsuits
Well, Donald Trump has barely unpacked his bags at Mar-A-Lago and America appears to already be heading straight down the drain, with Democrats leading the charge. As one reader (thanks NG) recently remarked: “they’re moving very quickly.” Indeed they are. And don’t be reassured by all the “working for ALL Americans” boilerplate. It sounds nice, but they DON’T MEAN A